Hmm. I don’t really think that anyone is scummy, mostly because of a lack of experience with anyone here, and a lack of evidence since this is the first phase (the version I play has night phases before day phases, and the ability to talk during them). I do feel like some people (Gianni, RC, and Ohm) should talk more though, and I would be fine with voting for them if they don’t do anything more this phase.

Woah, what?

You have no reads based on nine pages of content? Are you sure about that?

I agree with Naft, nine pages should give you enough of an idea, for example Espi and Grim who've both been acting pretty scummy.

When I started to read Liam Black the first thing that caught my attention was the handler's sig which had this picture.

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This sets the tone for Liam Black's tenure in V3, because Liam is a psycho you see, which the handler's emphasize every time Liam does anything, oh and his profile has him killing his family sans mother and has this line at the end of it.

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"Hes kept to himself for the most part, studious and quiet, but always scowling, but secretly he still harbors the same darkness and thirst for revenge he did as a child. And he studies, he plans, playing the act of a loner until the opportune moment. After all, he has no intentions to make a mistake, only to end up in jail."

Seriously, how did this guy get approved?

Liam Black's threads are all full of problems with V3, but his first thread is the absolutte worst offender, with Liam encountering Clive in a fight scene that reminds me more and more of Ichi the killer with Liam cackling about a stapler like it's best ting that could happen to him and Clive dodging bullets by running in circles (not joking about this) which descends into an argument between handlers in the middle of the thread (not joking about this either) and then both Liam and Clive go inactive.

Both show up in Liam's next thread with new handler's where after one post Clive has a sudden change of heart and ditches Liam(smartest thing he's done yet) Liam bitches about ot for a bit then leaves.

Liam enters in the middle of his next thread, joins up with a group consisting of Anna, Lauren, Lulu and Carson ( ), makes a list of things to do and leaves, nothing much else happens.

The group enters a Lenny thread(YAY!) where Liam proceeds to make the rest of his group hate him by acting like himself, seriously just look at this.

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Then he mentioned Shamecca. Now something was off. Lenny wanted the support of the others to make a stand against her. As soon as he finished...

Liam began to laugh. Like the Joker... Rising to his feet...

"AhahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-BULLSHIT."

Liam gave Lenny a cold stare, as he began to walk around the group, clockwise, facing his side to Lenny. He was convinced that Lenny's story was wrong. "Sorry, old chap, but your story smells of cowpats. For one, your sister has a tell. She movements, her expressions, they're all... False. She knows something is wrong... She also seems scared. It could be that she's scared of the imminent attackers... But it looks more like she knows that you're not telling the truth, and her tells give that away easily. I am an observant person, and one of my many hobbies was studying the movements of the human body and their behaviours, including when they're lying."

Liam chuckled, continuing his circle of walking around Lenny, before presenting his second point. "I may not be the "social" type, but I tend to hear information about people. And your story falls to pieces on the very focus of Shamecca. I know for a fact that Shamecca is a "good" girl who would stand up to anyone to protect her friends. Why would she be coming her for James, and why would you three know she's coming? Her personality doesn't fit the story. That would mean that James is her friend... And she intends to protect him from someone. If Shamecca isn't the one threatening James... Then..."

Liam grinned, having hit the jackpoint. He just figured out what Lenny was REALLY up to. His right arm bended up to the front of his torso... "Then the person threatening James..."

"IS YOU!"

Liam's mighty roar of accusation was accompanied by him thrusting his arm out in front of him, finger-pointing directly at Lenny... And at the same time, as if the heavens themselves were on his side, a roar of thunder burst into the Hollow Tree, the originating lightning bolt not too far away, which made a bright light and a dark shadow which made everyone look half-light, half-shadow... And Liam was giving Lenny a very cold stare, which, on its own, would be very intimidating indeed.

Seriously, what the fuck.

Anyways everyone runs off and Liam runs into Lulu and Anna after they kidnapped Elizabeth.

And then Liam sees that Anna has Wednesday's katana and loses his shit at her(Liam's spent the whole game after learning she's dead hunting for her weapon and obsessing over it, why?, I don't know)

Lulu does the sensible thing and stabs Liam with her scythe.

And then Liam makes a dying speech, despite the fact Lulu just buried a scythe in his chest.

Then he finally dies and all is right with the world.

Liam's story have way too many problems for me to recommend him to others, his death is a bit better, but it's still not that good(Seriously you've been cut by a scythe, how the hell are you still speaking?)

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued? Mara's changed immensly

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline? I'll admit when i first read Hansel's profile I had my misgivings which I voiced in chat, but Naft suprised me immensly over the course of the game and had Hansel interact with a large amount of characters, many of whom has been inflluenced in some way(mostly into wanting to kill him).

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you? Joachim and how he dealt with the game.

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing? Gray was very realistic over the course of the game.

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side? Gray was solidly a good guy.

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well? A tie between Hansel and KK

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting? Carlon ;_;

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C) RJ's narration in his early threads made me laugh in it's Dark comedy, not so much the later ones.

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home? Have to give it to Matt Vartoogian, he had a plan and kept himself mostly to it.

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for? Mara's been trough some harsh stuff

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of? Matt Vartooigan again.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer? CARLON ;_;

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise? Hansel's been asking for it since day one.

Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?CARLON ;_;

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game? Naomi's death and what Summer did with the body made me feel a bit queasy.

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game? Daniel's death affected quite a number of people.

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief? Can't help but chuckle at "HI GUYS, BYE GUYS".

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on? Garret and Hansel's fight scene.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you? Michael finding out that Daniel's dead and his reaction.

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama? Joe's and Maddie's deaths.

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution? Hansel breaking his Famas in endgame.

Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I was very negativ towards V5 around lategame over very petty reasons and ignored it, Something I very much regret now.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? Rooting for Mara.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Interesting, that's for sure.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I enjoyed it, though there have been times where I have outright ignored it.

What do you like the most about V5? I believe the writing has improved and that the community has gotten better and better over the course of it.

What do you think could have been better about the version? The negativity regarding lategame.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? Haven't read much of the overall story.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? The writings improved greatly.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? From what I've seen from the concepts, it's gonna be interesting.

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Can't answer that.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? This neither.

What are you proudest of in V5? Damn these questions!

What do you wish you could improve? In general my writing and activity, been too spotty with both lately.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Everyone being entusiastisk about V5, before the wave of negativity started.

Has a pretty basic wake up scene in sotf, so not much to comment on really, the only problem I had with it was Cyco introducing another one of his characters in the middle of the post.

In the next two threads James get's stoned off his ass, shoots a bunch of imaginary birds in the sky, get's beaten up by Brenden and then by Steve who steals his gun.

Then he meets up with Trish McCarroll, this is where James, in my opinion, starts getting worse as from this thread forward he travels with Trish(and Danni).

This is James's biggest problem because he spend nearly the entirety of his time in V3 as Trish sidekick who spends most of the time in the background while she goes about doing way more interesting stuff than he does.

In fact it's only in his first, second and half of his third thread where he's not practically chained to Trish, hell in fact his death post is Trish's last post before Endgame.

It also doesn't help that James is sporadically posted with and severally of those posts are extremely short.

I don't know if i can actually recommend James as it's more of a recommendation of Trish than anything else, that and the fact that his and her story has a lot of V3 stuff that I hate (OOC notes, a handler having two or more characters in one post, one character chained to another for their entire duration).